 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...clashing brav'd Horrible discord; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound imitating reluctance. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind? SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS OF GREATER LENGTH. Connubial affection. THE love that cheers life's latest stage,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 258 pages
...the madding wheels Of brazen fury, rag'd. Sound imitating reluctance. For who, to dumb fprgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd;...cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behmd ? SECTION VI. PARAGRAPHS OF GREATER IF5OTII. Connubial affection. THE love that cheers life's... | |
 | Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...ocean bear ; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen3 And waste its sweetness on the desert air. For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey This pleasing...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, ling' ring look behind.-' LYRIC poetry may, in point of antiquity, contend... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...hray'd Horrible discord ; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound imitating reluctance. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey. This pleasing...resign'd ; Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, Hng'ring look behind ? SECTION VI. fc PARAGRAPHS OF GREATER LENGTH. Connubial... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1827 - 386 pages
...He was interred yesterday, at a place he lately purchased in the bury, ing-ground on the Gallon. u For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day. Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind!"... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their names, their years, spelt by the unletter'cl Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy...resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing — lingering look behind ? On some fond breast the parting soul relies ;... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, — Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...decked, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their yefers, spelled by the unlettered muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy...forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned,— Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,— Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind... | |
 | Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - Education - 1991 - 292 pages
...Country Church Yard, 1751,1. 88; the narrator, contemplating the gravestones in the churchyard, asks: For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing...being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the chearful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? See "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard,"... | |
 | Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - Fiction - 1989 - 452 pages
...her as she faced Haworth like a soldier facing execution. 'Tell me,' she said. BOOK THREE The Anchor For who, to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?... | |
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Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 
